A beloved Jersey City bodega owner was heartlessly gunned down in a botched early-morning holdup that also claimed the life of a teen suspect who was accidentally shot by his cohort.

Fausto Valentin Garcia, a hardworking 54-year-old father of four, was shot at 5:20 a.m., when three young punks armed with guns burst into his store as he was preparing to open for the day, said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

One of the three started firing when Garcia reached for an aluminum baseball bat he kept behind the counter to defend himself, DeFazio said.

In the confusion that followed, one of the teenage thugs knocked a store employee to the ground and was shot by Garcia’s killer – apparently felled by a slug that missed its intended target.

The two surviving stickup men fled the store and took off in a four-door red sedan that was idling outside with a driver waiting behind the wheel, DeFazio said.

It’s believed the robbers grabbed some cash on their way out of the store – but officials did not know how much.

The dead holdup man was identified as Calvin McRae, 16, of Jersey City. A semi-automatic pistol was found next to his body, DeFazio said.